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author | Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> | 2010-08-04 14:43:45 +0300 |
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committer | Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> | 2010-08-04 14:43:45 +0300 |
commit | 7590d1defdc720a97a9e186f45f529c4ae1b40f7 (patch) | |
tree | e7ffdc043a2847f410d654d8e99e001f3138937a /arch/arm/include/asm/stackprotector.h | |
parent | 7e788b4289bb025a96e327c604cb2db92e17108f (diff) | |
parent | 869fef41547db95df8523bf67845a21313709428 (diff) |
Merge branch 'devel-map-io' into omap-for-linus
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-rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/include/asm/stackprotector.h | 38 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/stackprotector.h new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..de003327be9 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/stackprotector.h @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +/* + * GCC stack protector support. + * + * Stack protector works by putting predefined pattern at the start of + * the stack frame and verifying that it hasn't been overwritten when + * returning from the function. The pattern is called stack canary + * and gcc expects it to be defined by a global variable called + * "__stack_chk_guard" on ARM. This unfortunately means that on SMP + * we cannot have a different canary value per task. + */ + +#ifndef _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H +#define _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H 1 + +#include <linux/random.h> +#include <linux/version.h> + +extern unsigned long __stack_chk_guard; + +/* + * Initialize the stackprotector canary value. + * + * NOTE: this must only be called from functions that never return, + * and it must always be inlined. + */ +static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void) +{ + unsigned long canary; + + /* Try to get a semi random initial value. */ + get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary)); + canary ^= LINUX_VERSION_CODE; + + current->stack_canary = canary; + __stack_chk_guard = current->stack_canary; +} + +#endif /* _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H */ |